windows - subversion via cifs is not working

Question

I am trying to use subversion on a linux machine, the repository is on a Microsoft sbs2008 server. (I can access the repository from a Microsoft Windows 7 machine.) Can some one tell me how to get it to work?

This is what I have done.

# sudo mount -t cifs -v -o credentials=~/Files/server-mount-credentials,uid=richard,nocase,nounix,nosuid  //sbs2008/local ~/Files/server-mount/

# svn commit -m ""

Adding         file1
Sending        file2
Transmitting file data ........svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: database is locked

The strace shows:

open("/home/rdelorenzi/Files/server-mount/svn_repository/db/rep-cache.db", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE, 0644) = 12

...

_llseek(12, 162816, [162816], SEEK_SET) = 0
read(12, "
201 1 1N1|12521330260242b222022762354332"..., 1024) = 1024

_llseek(12, 100352, [100352], SEEK_SET) = 0
read(12, "
24ii2273053631!1O1}12531331270252c"..., 1024) = 1024
_llseek(12, 52224, [52224], SEEK_SET)   = 0
read(12, "
24k2313073651#1Q11771255133320272d2222"..., 1024) = 1024

fcntl64(12, F_SETLK64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=1073741824, len=1}, 0xbf8e15e8) = 0
fcntl64(12, F_SETLK64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=1073741826, len=510}, 0xbf8e15e8) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)

Answer 1

Don't mount a subversion repository via a network share, it just won't work reliably.

file:// access is intended for local, single-user access only, particularly testing and debugging. When you want to share the repository you really need to set up a proper server, and it is not nearly as difficult as you might think. Read the section called “Accessing the Repository” for guidelines on choosing and setting up a server. [link]

You need to run an SVN server, as David W notes.